Ways You Can Help with a Campaign

Ways a volunteer can help with a campaign:

• Campaign Team Lead — liaison between an organization and a specific campaign; identify volunteer needs and communicate with team volunteers
• Organize campaign materials — counting/batching/organizing walk cards or postcards for distribution to volunteers
• Write Postcards
• Organize Postcard Campaign — track volunteers in a spreadsheet, coordinate pickup locations, communicate deadlines and follow-up with postcard writers
• Postcard Pickup Host — host postcards on your porch for volunteers to pick up (please share your address)
• Data Entry
• Make campaign buttons & stickers — this is sometimes done in one of the maker spaces in our local libraries and is easy; library staff are very helpful
• Host a yard sign
• Help with yard signs — help put together or deliver and remove after the campaign
• Run errands — pick up literature from printer, etc. Helpful to have a list of people as needs arise
• Drive a Candidate while they canvass (knock doors) — this can be helpful when doors are far apart and on hot summer days.
• Knock Doors — do it with a friend or campaigns will pair you up with someone. Just going along and shadowing someone for a time or two
• Shadow Knock Doors — a great way to learn the ropes, tag along with an experienced canvasser
• Lit Drop — no door knocking, just walking and dropping literature at people’s doors; great exercise!
• Phone Banking — this can be done from on your own schedule or sometimes with a group (often via Zoom); training/instructions and scripts can be provided
• Text Banking — on your own schedule; training/instructions and scripts may be provided
• Attend speaking events – hand out campaign literature
• Coordinate Volunteers for a campaign — work directly with a campaign and call/text volunteers who’ve signed up on their website when needs arise
• Social Media help for a campaign — help with graphics or schedule posts, etc.
• Video Editing Skills
• Monitor and report news and social media articles
• Help the campaign office — collect & donate office supplies
• Host a meet & greet — invite friends/neighbors to meet a candidate in your area (super helpful)
• Organize a Meal Train for a candidate and workers — something to help make the campaigning easier
• Participate in a Meal Train — anything from coffee or drinks and donuts to lunch
• Babysitting services for a candidate — if there is a need during campaign events, etc.
• Carpool help for a candidate — candidates with young kids might need help getting them to their activities when they are busy with campaign events
• Work polling locations during early voting and on election day — ask people to vote for your candidate
• Give money and raise money 
• Talk to people — while wearing a campaign t-shirt
• Get busy on the internet — Play nice. Speak the truth. Be brief.
• Drive voters to the polls
• Visit retirement communities — help sign people up for voting by mail or absentee

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